Why Rest Feels So Hard (Even When You’re Exhausted)

The Rest Audit

Take five minutes this week and ask yourself two questions:

What kind of rest does my body actually need right now?
(Is it sleep, stillness, space, or play?)
What’s the guilt story that shows up the moment I try to rest?
(Is it “I’ll fall behind”? “I’m being lazy”? “People will think I don’t care”?)

Write the answers down — no fixing, no judging.

Because the truth is: you don’t struggle with rest itself. You struggle with the stories you’ve attached to it. The Rest Audit helps you name them…so they stop running the show in silence.